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...race will now enter a chaotic phase. Democratic leaders have stacked many primaries and caucuses in early March to create an artificial stampede for a consensus nominee. But this frantic schedule means that just when the candidates should be gradually introducing themselves to most voters, they have to embark on a merciless two-week media-market march through 14 primaries and 10 state caucuses, climaxing with 11 contests on Super Tuesday, March...
...Crews is just plain sloppy. Set for no apparent reason in the mid-'50s, the novel has an unsettling contemporary feel that makes every detail seem anachronistic. The prose, taut and terrifying early on when sex is a threat and violence a seduction, goes limp once Sarah and Pete embark on an apple-pie romance. Even in the fun house of Southern gothic, losing control of the fine tuning is a mistake...
...group is about to embark on a fund-raisingcampaign to raise money for the building of a newheadquarters and youth center. Gang Peace will beA-12PhotoChristine LeeRodney Dailey of Gang Peace...
...Stempel said, the company would embark on a three-year program that would close 25 North American plants and reduce its current work force by 74,000, or about 19%. GM would abandon for the foreseeable future its hopes to regain its lost share of the U.S. market, which has fallen in the past decade from 45% to just over 35%. According to the plan, which did not specify which plants would be closed, GM would emerge by 1995 only half as large as it was a decade earlier and, as Stempel said, "a much different General Motors...
...highways in the summer of 1492, Cabezon witnesses the horrific mass-expulsion of the Jews-their lives and possessions are now prey to roadside thieves as they march to the southern ports. Finding his wife and child in Puerto de Santa Maria as they prepare to embark, and unable to detain them, Cabezon promises to make his fortune and find them in Flanders. He then takes the road to Palos in search of a man he has heard of named Columbus. The novel closes, "We left port by way of the Saltes River, half an hour before sunup, on Friday...